3 Quotes by Jonas E Andersson

Participating in architectural competitions is associated both with a playful learning process, delight, collaboration and with competition in dead earnest. The tension of the chase for the fundamental idea that will resolve the design project has been testified to among practicing architects. […]. A sense of curiosity and delight fills the exhibition room. A new world is being opened before the eyes of the jury. The future is at stake.

Part of competition culture is making the proposals public through exhibitions, where they become the object of critical review in a form of worthy emulation of each other. […] The public presentation of architectural projects in competitions via home pages, journals and exhibitions lend communal character to knowledge production.

The architectural competition illustrates processes of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative, creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.